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Full-Text Articles in Life Sciences
Non-Native Non-Apis Bees Are More Abundant On Non-Native Versus Native Flowering Woody Landscape Plants, Daniel A. Potter, Bernadette M. Mach
Non-Native Non-Apis Bees Are More Abundant On Non-Native Versus Native Flowering Woody Landscape Plants, Daniel A. Potter, Bernadette M. Mach
Entomology Faculty Publications
Urban ecosystems can support diverse communities of wild native bees. Because bloom times are conserved by geographic origin, incorporating some non-invasive non-native plants in urban landscapes can extend the flowering season and help support bees and other pollinators during periods when floral resources from native plants are limiting. A caveat, though, is the possibility that non-native plants might disproportionately host non-native, potentially invasive bee species. We tested that hypothesis by identifying all non-native bees among 11,275 total bees previously collected from 45 species of flowering woody landscape plants across 213 urban sites. Honey bees, Apis mellifera L., accounted for 22% …
A Versatile Contribution Of Both Aminopeptidases N And Abc Transporters To Bt Cry1ac Toxicity In The Diamondback Moth, Dan Sun, Liuhong Zhu, Le Guo, Shaoli Wang, Qingjun Wu, Neil Crickmore, Xuguo Zhou, Alejandra Bravo, Mario Soberón, Zhaojiang Guo, Youjun Zhang
A Versatile Contribution Of Both Aminopeptidases N And Abc Transporters To Bt Cry1ac Toxicity In The Diamondback Moth, Dan Sun, Liuhong Zhu, Le Guo, Shaoli Wang, Qingjun Wu, Neil Crickmore, Xuguo Zhou, Alejandra Bravo, Mario Soberón, Zhaojiang Guo, Youjun Zhang
Entomology Faculty Publications
BACKGROUND: Biopesticides and transgenic crops based on Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins are extensively used to control insect pests, but the rapid evolution of insect resistance seriously threatens their effectiveness. Bt resistance is often polygenic and complex. Mutations that confer resistance occur in midgut proteins that act as cell surface receptors for the toxin, and it is thought they facilitate its assembly as a membrane-damaging pore. However, the mechanistic details of the action of Bt toxins remain controversial.
RESULTS: We have examined the contribution of two paralogous ABC transporters and two aminopeptidases N to Bt Cry1Ac toxicity in the diamondback moth, …
Mapk-Mediated Transcription Factor Gatad Contributes To Cry1ac Resistance In Diamondback Moth By Reducing Pxmalp Expression, Le Guo, Zhouqiang Cheng, Jianying Qin, Dan Sun, Shaoli Wang, Qingjun Wu, Neil Crickmore, Xuguo Zhou, Alejandra Bravo, Mario Soberón, Zhaojiang Guo, Youjun Zhang
Mapk-Mediated Transcription Factor Gatad Contributes To Cry1ac Resistance In Diamondback Moth By Reducing Pxmalp Expression, Le Guo, Zhouqiang Cheng, Jianying Qin, Dan Sun, Shaoli Wang, Qingjun Wu, Neil Crickmore, Xuguo Zhou, Alejandra Bravo, Mario Soberón, Zhaojiang Guo, Youjun Zhang
Entomology Faculty Publications
The benefits of biopesticides and transgenic crops based on the insecticidal Cry-toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are considerably threatened by insect resistance evolution, thus, deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying insect resistance to Bt products is of great significance to their sustainable utilization. Previously, we have demonstrated that the down-regulation of PxmALP in a strain of Plutella xylostella (L.) highly resistant to the Bt Cry1Ac toxin was due to a hormone-activated MAPK signaling pathway and contributed to the resistance phenotype. However, the underlying transcriptional regulatory mechanism remains enigmatic. Here, we report that the PxGATAd transcription factor (TF) is responsible for the …